Humour: The Ideal Mental Condition

To be playful and serious at the same time is possible, in fact it defines the ideal mental condition

John Dewey

True humor…is love. The essence of humor is sensibility;

warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence.

Carlyle

Men of humor are always in some degree men of genius.

Coleridge

It is important to educate ourselves in humor because it does not tolerate anger, hopelessness, and helplessness.

Höfner & Schachtner

Humor is not a feeling but a philosophy of life.

Wittgenstein

1. Humor is one of the most important things in our lives. For example, the undesirability of having wealth and love without humor would seem to make them secondary to the value of humor. 2. Humor may be used as a powerful method of inquiry. 3. Humor is a significant form of therapy. 4. Humor is an aesthetic form. 5. Humor may be used to humanize.